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Syrian Army Continues to Hunt Militants North, South of Aleppo

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The Syrian Army and popular forces hit the militant groups’ positions in the Northern and Southern parts of Aleppo province heavily, inflicting dozens of casualties on the terrorists.

The militant groups’ concentration centers in Tal Hahiyeh in the Southern part of province were massively shelled by the Syrian army’s missile units.

The army attacks near the neighborhoods of al-Family House and al-Rashedin 1 pinned down the militant groups behind their defense lines, an army source in the region said.

On Saturday, a senior officer within the Syrian Army ranks announced that thousands of well-trained new recruits from at least four provinces moved to Aleppo province to join the pro-government forces’ protection-combat missions in the Northern province.

“With the large territories the Syrian army and its allies have captured inside the Aleppo province’s Eastern part in the last three months; it would require a substantial amount of military personnel to protect the roads and villages in order for the Syrian Arab Army to progress further along the ISIL frontier,” the army officer said.

“The Syrian army troops and their allies are on the move in the Aleppo province’s Eastern part, capturing several villages that were once under the control of the ISIL inside the al-Bab Plateau and the Deir Hafer Plains,” the source said.

“A fresh batch of recruits that just graduated from training camp in the Qalamoun Mountains (al-Nabk and Deir al-Attiyah) have been deployed to this front in order to fulfill the army’s recent manpower quota,” the officer went on to say.

The source further added that the aggregated number of military personnel is in the thousands.

“Most of these conscripted soldiers are from the Syrian capital of Damascus, as well as the Syrian provinces of Quneitra, Sweida, and Homs,” the officer pointed out.

“The arrival of these reinforcements should free up several soldiers from the Tiger Forces and Liwa Suqour al-Sahra (Desert Hawks Brigade) that are currently tasked with protecting the captured villages,” he added.

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